Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi Palaniswami today, April 6, has made many announcements regarding coronavirus. After meeting all the district collectors, he detailed all the preventive steps taken and to be considered for coronavirus infection. The highlights of the CM’s announcement include buying and using 1 lakh crore rapid testing equipment from April 9. Also, the re-opening of schools will decide on the situation after the lockdown was his other announcements.

From WHO chief Tedros Adhonom to former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan is all insisting only on one thing. It is to test who are all under symptoms of coronavirus as early as possible and to isolate them. They even have pointed out that mere lockdown will only give temporary relief, because as soon as it is over and the people come out in the open, those who are infected may spread the virus to others.

In South Korea and Italy, more than 7600 people out of one million are tested for coronavirus. In India, only a mere 29 are verified for every million population. And in Tamil Nadu out of the 6,79,00,000 population, only 4,612 which have been tested so far. And the positive cases among them are more than 10 % at 571. In this scenario, the chief minister’s announcement of one lakh rapid testing equipment to start testing from April 10, which can confirm results within half an hour, is an excellent welcome announcement. The other announcements of CM include

2,10,538 persons have been screened in airports

90,541 of these persons who were screened in airports are under home quarantine

10,814 have completed 28 days home quarantine

17 coronavirus testing labs set up in Tamil Nadu that includes 11 government labs and six private labs

21 more lab facilities with equipment and workforce are ready and have been waiting for the approval of the central government

1,848 are in-patients in government hospitals with doubt of being infected with coronavirus

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